Bob Hope

Also known as Leslie Townes Hope, Leslie Hope, Lester Hope, Packy East

American entertainer (1903–2003)

OverviewAI-generated

Bob Hope was an American male artist whose professional career spanned from 1919 to 1997. He is associated with genres including pop, jazz, and comedy. His recorded works include *Bob Hope's Confessions of a hooker*, *The World of Bob Hope*, *They Got Me Covered*, *My Favorite Brunette*, and *Ghost Breakers*. Hope was recognized in the Grammy Winners, Hollywood Walk Of Fame, and Peabody Award collections.

Born on May 29, 1903, and dying on July 27, 2003, Hope had four children. He is the subject of 3,199 other encyclopedia articles. His social media presence includes 7,950 followers, while his music profile lists 17,111 listeners and 153,634 plays.

Synthesized by Vinony from 29 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born: 1903
Died: 2003
Works: 46

Top works

Bob Hope's Confessions of a hooker
The World of Bob Hope
They Got Me Covered
Bob Hope's Own Story As Told to Pete Martin; Have Tux Will Travel, At Last the facts on the HOw a Regular, Ordinary Baby Grew Up to Look LIke This!
My Favorite Brunette

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1903-05-29
Active to: 2003-07-03

2008 universal fire victim

Discography

Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 17,111
Total plays: 153,634

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 59,236x
The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,203x
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
· 2017 · cited 6,175x
The Complete Genome Sequence of <i>Escherichia coli</i> K-12
· 1997 · cited 5,919x
<i>Stan</i> : A Probabilistic Programming Language
· 2017 · cited 5,837x

via Crossref · CC0

Quotes

“Thanks to our brave allies: you gallant Russian bear, you British everywhere.”
“I was on the way to my hotel, and I passed a hotel going in the opposite direction.”
“I know I'm in England because this morning, my stomach got up two hours before I did and had a cup of tea! I've had so much tea, I slosh when I walk! You have to drink tea - I've tasted the coffee!”

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~40 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Lester Townes "Bob" Hope (né Leslie Townes Hope; May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) was a British-born American comedian, actor, entertainer and producer with a career that spanned nearly 80 years and achievements in vaudeville, network radio, television, and USO Tours. He appeared in more than 70 short and feature films, starring in 54, including a series of seven Road to ... musical comedy films with Bing Crosby as his partner. He reached his 100th birthday 59 days before he died in 2003.

Hope hosted the Academy Awards ceremony a record 19 times. He also appeared in many stage productions and television roles and wrote 14 books. The song "Thanks for the Memory" was his signature tune. He was praised for his comedic timing, specializing in one-liners and rapid-fire delivery of jokes that were often self-deprecating. Between 1941 and 1991, he made 57 tours for the United Service Organizations (USO), entertaining military personnel around the world. In 1997, Congress passed a bill that made him an honorary veteran of the Armed Forces.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bob Hope” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.